Empowering Students for Success: A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Cultivating a Growth Mindset

audrey sienkiewicz: The book came in great condition! !

United States on Jul 08, 2023

Ashlee Stingel: Growth mindset has always been something I have wanted to incorporate into my classroom. I knew when I started teaching I wanted it to become a daily habit and reflection for my students. I wasn't sure where to start when I entered the classroom and how to really engage students and get them to "buy into" the growth mindset idea. This book was a fantastic tool this school year, especially with so much crazy going on! The authors made it easy to follow and easy to read. There is plenty of room for reflections about my own teaching as well as incorporated lesson plans to teach students about the process. This is a book I highly recommend to anyone who wants to establish a classroom of growth rather than passive behavior.

United States on Apr 29, 2021

Paula Hassan: Great book. Some good ideas.

United Kingdom on Jul 24, 2020

DC65: Helpful and great read

Canada on Feb 07, 2020

Joyful Math: Maybe you've got a whole classroom full of small humans to teach and aren't awash in leisure hours to read something technical.

This book is for you.

I'm excited to use this with my students. I think it will really help some of them discover their abilities. I'm also super excited that it's all based on scientific evidence. It's a great book though, because you get just enough of the science to help you see why the techniques will be effective. It doesn't dwell for days on the science, because good grief, Charlie Brown, you have enough to do. You just want to implement the science, not get another degree in it! We're looking for a way to help students; not a way to get more college credits. (Or maybe we are, but let's try not to think about grading winter finals and being in school at the same time. haha)

P.S. Please disregard my grammar. I teach math. ;-)

United States on Dec 05, 2017

Jacqueline Ferguson: A great review of how to create a good mindset in a child's growth. Love the ideas to use in your class.

Canada on Aug 17, 2017

Mark Garner: This book is a great resource for encouraging and developing a growth mindset in your classroom or child. There are many ideas, lesson plans, materials, charts, guide questions and journal entries that encourage your own development of a growth mindset along with your students. One of the authors of the book is a Kindergarten teacher, so many of the anecdotes come from her classroom experience. I would like to challenge the notion put forth by another reviewer that this book is too dull for middle school students. I have worked with students from K-8 and believe that the material in this book can easily be modified to be applicable and engaging to any student in those grade levels. The authors actually provide modification strategies for many of the lesson plans to make them more appropriate for whatever grade level you teach.

I could not put this book down while I was reading it and found it to be very enjoyable to read. I finished it in less then a week and it caused me to want to read many more of the books that they recommend for further growth in the last chapter. I look forward to implementing many of the strategies recommended in this book in my classroom next year....

United States on Jul 18, 2017

Paula McGill: Brilliant. Some lovely ideas on how to design 'growth mindset' activities in the classroom. Each unit is quite long but that's fine since each unit/chapter is designed to run over the course of a month. A lovely reminder to teachers of the importance of maintaining and modelling a growth mindset!

United Kingdom on Jan 18, 2017

Susan: Practical help for teaching children and myself about mindsets.

Canada on Nov 11, 2016

CaringConsumer: This is an excellent book - a great teacher resource to supplement information and activities on developing an inquisitive mind! I would appreciate more of a dual approach to the topic - one that related to an educator-friendly monthly theme for mind growth/mindset AND included more professional reflection that allowed the reader to further expand on what these authors offer here.

United States on Oct 04, 2016